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Typical Large, Old Company - Data Integration Developer General Motors (GM) Employee Review

4.0
Jan 4, 2016
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Pros

GMIT is focused on hiring young talent- making about a third of the office in their twenties. This demographic makes my experience in the office fun and allows for innovation and creativity. If you want to expand network, there are multiple opportunities to be a part of employee resource groups. Vacation time is generous. Building setup is colorful and encourages collaboration. New car discount Mary Barra is awesome. Austin location has a much more open culture than the rest of GM since it is newer and not in Detroit.

Cons

Like many old and large companies, management has a tendency to control your work life without notifying you until a change has been made for you. I've seen many people who learn they are changing roles from a department-wide email which feels very impersonal and makes you feel out of control over your career. Maternity/Paternity leave policies are underwhelming. Instead of telling employees actual expectations, management lies to you with "stretch goals" because they assume you will fail to meet the actual timeline. I understand why people do this, but it makes me feel like a child. Multiple times, I worked super-late hours to meet their false timeline only to learn that it wasn't due for another few days. Then, I had nothing to do for those three days but be sleep deprived from the previous week.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

I was able to learn some interesting things in robotics, computer vision, etc. These jobs can be hard to come by, so it was a nice entry point. Plenty of chances to prove your worth, considering the incompetence of some of the managers and leads (but dont expect to be paid for the effort, you gotta show the effort first and you *might* get an early promotion)

Cons

Layoffs are frequent and nonsensical. Absolutely no warning that it will happen, you just wake up one day with the meeting on your calendar. Pay is OK. After being laid off late May, I found a job in a month or two that paid more (150k base -> 180k base) The things I learned were almost entirely self taught. Leads and management provided zero structure. They didnt use jira at all. They didnt write up business requirements for projects. Leads didnt create technical requirements. Milestones were vague. Everything was completely unorganized due to the inexperience of upper management and engineering leadership.

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